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Cool Conduct

The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany

By: Helmut Lethen, Don Reneau (Translator)

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Hardcover | 27 March 2002 | Edition Number 1

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"Cool Conduct" is an elegant interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic by a scholar well known for his profound knowledge of this period. Helmut Lethen writes of "cool conduct" as a cultivated antidote to the heated atmosphere of post-World War I Germany, as a way of burying shame and animosity that might otherwise make social contact impossible.

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"Lethen brilliantly interprets New Objectivity as a tactical response to the need for a 'code of conduct' in an age of anxiety about values and normative judgments. Moving effortlessly between analysis of philosophical texts and literary works, he charts an increasingly popular field of cultural studies: how cultural discourses shape behavior.... One of the most original and daring contributions to Weimar scholarship and to the study of modernity in general in a decade." - Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley "Lethen is probably the most original and outstanding scholar writing in German today about Weimar literature and culture. He traces the figure of the 'cold persona' as part of a broader discourse of anthropological, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions.... The book is written in a personal voice, witty, lucid, and unpretentious." - Miriam Hansen, University of Chicago

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History European History Society & Culture Cultural Studies Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Regional Studies

Preface to the American edition	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Fending Off Shame: The Habitus of Objectivity	p. 1
The Rapture of Circulation and Schematicism	p. 21
The Conduct Code of the Cool Persona	p. 33
The Cool Persona in New Objectivity Literature	p. 101
The Radar Type	p. 187
The Creature	p. 195
Afterword	p. 215
Notes	p. 217
Index	p. 239
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